Details

Subject(s)

• Alchemy—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Alchemy—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, English—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Attributed name

• Ripley, George, -1490? [Browse]

Summary note

Illustrated alchemical roll incorporating Middle English verses attributed to Sir George Ripley.

Notes

• Ms. roll.
• Illustrations: Four panels containing emblematic diagrams serving as instructions on the process of transmuting base metals into precious metals. A fifth panel by a different artist appears to depict Ripley.

Language note

Texts in Middle English and Latin.

Provenance

Early and intermediate provenance unknown. Bought in London by H.P. Kraus, 1957, and sold to Lawrence Witten, who sold it to Robert H. Taylor.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert H. Taylor, Princeton Class of 1930, 1958.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, p. 309.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Know as

• Ripley scroll